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        The Weight of Gold

        The Weight of Gold

        by Mica Jorgenson

        ISBN: 9781647791049

        Pub Date: 6 June 2023

        Format: Hardcover

        268 Pages

        Mining in North America has long been criticized for its impact on the natural environment. Mica Jorgenson’s The Weight of Gold explores the history of Ontario, Canada’s rise to prominence...
        Mapping Historical Las Vegas

        Mapping Historical Las Vegas

        A Cartographic Journey

        by Joe Weber

        ISBN: 9781948908405

        Pub Date: 28 June 2022

        Format: Paperback

        336 Pages

        This book takes readers on a cartographic journey through thousands of years of history in Las Vegas and explores many dimensions of the city today. Experience what Las Vegas was like in 1865, 1905, what lies beneath the waters of Lake Mead, an d what goes on in the vast public lands around the city.
         
        Tributary Voices

        Tributary Voices

        Literary and Rhetorical Exploration of the Colorado River

        by Paul A. Formisano

        ISBN: 9781647790424

        Pub Date: 26 April 2022

        Format: Paperback

        272 Pages

        Tributary Voices takes a fresh look at the Colorado River through an interdisciplinary approach to the role stories play in cultivating a sustainable water ethic. Through literary, rhetorical, and historical analyses of some of the river’s lesser-known stakeholders, this study considers how our present moment on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Colorado River Compact demands a more comprehensive approach to river management.
        One Shot for Gold

        One Shot for Gold

        Developing a Modern Mine in Northern California

        by Eleanor Herz Swent

        ISBN: 9781647790066

        Pub Date: 4 May 2021

        Format: Hardcover

        288 Pages

        In 1978, a geologist working for the Homestake Mining Company discovered gold in a remote corner of California’s Napa County. This discovery led to the establishment of California’s most productive...
        Gambling With Lives

        Gambling With Lives

        A History of Occupational Health in Greater Las Vegas

        by Michelle Follette Turk

        ISBN: 9781948908924

        Pub Date: 15 December 2020

        Format: Paperback

        378 Pages

        A critical, long-term study on some of Southern Nevada’s most catastrophic workplace disasters. Updated through 2020, this revised and expanded edition includes discussions on:
        • Union activity, sexual harassment and misconduct, and race and employment
        • The change to Las Vegas’ “What happens here, stays here” slogan
        • The MGM Grand Fire and 1918 influenza pandemic
        • Work-related musculoskeletal disorders in the service industry
        • Legionnaire’s Disease outbreaks at resorts
        • Effects of the Route 91 Harvest Festival Shooting
        • The COVID-19 pandemic
        Heavy Ground

        Heavy Ground

        William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster

        by Norris Hundley Jr. and Donald C. Jackson

        ISBN: 9781948908887

        Pub Date: 8 December 2020

        Format: Paperback

        440 Pages

        Heavy Ground explores the social, political, and technological history of the St. Francis Dam Disaster in California, the worst civil engineering disaster in twentieth-century American History. Approximately 400 people died in March 1928, when the concrete gravity dam built by Los Angeles engineer William Mulholland suddenly and tragically collapsed, releasing over 12 billion gallons of water into the Santa Clara River Valley.
         
        The City That Ate Itself

        The City That Ate Itself

        Butte, Montana and Its Expanding Berkeley Pit

        by Brian James Leech

        ISBN: 9781948908290

        Pub Date: 31 January 2019

        Format: Paperback

        376 Pages

        A social and environmental history of Butte’s infamous Berkeley Pit.
        Grit and Gold

        Grit and Gold

        The Death Valley Jayhawkers of 1849

        by Jean Johnson

        ISBN: 9781943859771

        Pub Date: 1 November 2018

        Format: Hardcover

        288 Pages

        The captivating true adventure of the Death Valley Jayhawkers’ quest for gold
        Mining the Borderlands

        Mining the Borderlands

        Industry, Capital, and the Emergence of Engineers in the Southwest Territories, 1855-1910

        by Sarah E. M. Grossman

        ISBN: 9781943859832

        Pub Date: 1 October 2018

        Format: Hardcover

        184 Pages

        A significant examination of the key mining professionals who transformed the US-Mexico borderlands
        Historical Archaeology in the Cortez Mining District

        Historical Archaeology in the Cortez Mining District

        Under the Nevada Giant

        by Erich Obermayr and Robert W. McQueen

        ISBN: 9781943859221

        Pub Date: 15 November 2016

        Format: Hardcover

        184 Pages

        An archaeology project unearths the details of daily life in a western mining community
         
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